How the CIA and Air Force Tried to Shut Down Public UFO Hysteria After 1953
A confidential report detailing a meeting between CIA officials and Air Force personnel in the aftermath of the 1953 Robertson Panel reveals a calculated strategy to undercut public fascination with UFOs and reframe the narrative through carefully managed messaging....
What Intelligence Analysts Really Thought About UFO Reports in the 1950s
A declassified memo titled "Comments on Letters Dealing with Unidentified Flying Objects" gives a rare peek into how intelligence professionals behind closed doors viewed the flood of UFO sightings in the early Cold War. It wasn’t panic. It wasn’t mockery. It was...
Declassified Document Reveals CIA’s Cold War Brainwashing Regime
In the early 1950s, the Central Intelligence Agency quietly compiled a now-declassified internal study for FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover. Its subject: the systematic re-education of captured minds-a process popularly known as "brainwashing." But the agency’s report...
Silence Over Sightings: Air Force Grapples with Panel’s UAP Report
In early 1953, U.S. Air Force officials met behind closed doors to respond to a sensitive issue that refused to disappear from American skies - unidentified flying objects. The declassified memo titled “Meeting With Air Force Personnel Concerning Scientific...
